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Category Archives: Public Drunkness

Consciousness, morality and good manners – these are the things that distinguish us as human beings. We make an effort to exist in a healthy society, we work on our manners to educate our children in a better way, we choose to have an adequate behavior to prevent any kind of harm. Both state and local laws use various tools in order to preserve these values, and Public Intoxication Law is one of them.

Public Intoxication Law is a category of alcohol crimes that involves being intoxicated by alcohol in a public place.Intoxication in this context means having blood alcohol concentration (BAC) over legal limit of 0.08%, or being under the influence of drugs or prescribed medications. The term of public place includes indoors and outdoors areas, that are privately or publicly owned, generally open and accessible to people. In other words, Public Intoxication (also known as “drunk and disorderly”) is a law offense rated to public cases or a demonstration of drunkenness. State laws vary in the specifications where a person is allowed to consume beverages.

Having to go to court for a plant might seem a bit much, especially when the plant we are discussing is marijuana. Understanding the laws of this popular plant is so complicated that even local law enforcement in the state of California can’t seem to understand how to handle this decriminalized herb. Marijuana leading to increase in DUI charges in California has become an issue to the court system and to the individuals receiving the DUI.

Most DUI cases end up leaving the defendant in jail for approximately 3 days while the judge gets to hear the case and decide what the sentencing will be. Facing legal actions for being high on a plant that is known to ease tension should be a crime itself, due to the fact that more and more doctors are being summoned to court after dealing with patients all day to clarify that the defendant is in fact under the prescription of marijuana, and is allowed to smoke this non harmful plant. Driving under the influence of marijuana according to the State of Colorado and Washington is an acceptable thing, and although the Feds never really approved the use of marijuana, state law seems to be passing all kinds of legalities that tells the individual how to operate after smoking marijuana. However, given that the plant has not been fully legalized in California, it is leading to the increase in DUI arrests.

A bid is a sum of money that a lawyer offers for the opportunity of talking to a client, to receive his contact information and discuss his case (the minimum amount you can bid on is 6 law dollars).

It’s important to remember that a lawyer’s bid on a case determines where in the list of competing, “bidding” lawyers their profile will be displayed to the clients, who posted the case. The profile with the highest bid will be displayed first and the lowest, respectively, the last.

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Forensic Linguistics is the study of the language of law and legal process. It also includes the language of 911 calls, the police and the courtroom, and the language that is used in trials as evidence.

LanguageAndLaw.org describes Forensic Linguistics as the methodology that solves crimes. It comprises many areas that relate to crime, both solving crime and absolving people wrongly accused of committing crimes. Some of these areas include:

Voice identification (also called forensic phonetics)

Author identification (analysis of the personal writing style; also called forensic stylistics)

Discourse analysis (analysis of the structure of spoken or written utterance)

Linguistic proficiency

Dialectology

Language analysis (determining the suspect’s native language)

“Linguistic veracity analysis” (determining whether a speaker or a writer was being truthful)

One of the best forensic linguists in the USA is Dr. Robert Leonard. He has a wide experience in his field of expertise. For instance, he has been retained by both defendants and prosecutors to consult and/or testify in criminal cases involving murder, espionage, and other felonies, and he has consulted and/or testified for both plaintiffs and defendants in civil cases involving trademarks, plagiarism, libel, malpractice, and the meaning of contracts.

The following video briefly describes Dr. Robert Leonard’s technique on how to implement the theoretical knowledge of Forensic Linguistics into practice, i.e. Sherlyn Hummert murder investigation.